The externally-sourced Knowledge Graph in Google search has been known to make some mistakes, but its latest is particularly embarrassing. Apparently, recent Google searches suggested that US Republican Senator Orrin Hatch was dead, even though he is… not.

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Late last night the Twitter account for Senator Orrin Hatch’s office shared a humorous tweet making fun of the ubiquitous search engine: “Hi…@Google?,” it wrote. “We might need to talk.”

Since Google sources information in Knowledge Graph from a variety of authoritative sources around the web, it’s relatively easy to manipulate — as long as those sources are easy to manipulate. Google says that the primary sources of this information is IMDB, Wikipedia, Feebase, and WikiData.

In this case it’s unclear what caused Hatch’s death to be wrongly pronounced (on a seemingly random date of September 11th, 2017, no less), but the good news is that it’s fixed now. The Knowledge Graph now rightly shows his birth date: March 22, 1934 (age 84 years) and no accompanying death.

The normal process of getting your information sorted in Knowledge Graph profiles for famous figures involves attempting to correct the source of the incorrect data (if obvious), updating official websites, and if necessary, using the feedback button.